Michael Tomkins BE CompE / LLB

Web Manager, Sydney University Musical Society, sums.org.au

Nov 2010 - Present

• Backing-up databases on a regular basis ensuring data protection and security, this included the implementation of a disaster recovery solution.
• I reworking website to achieve presentation of Society information in a 3 column CSS3 / HTML5 format.
• Traced module scope to determine causes of presentation problems and then removed the redundant modules and upgraded other modules.
• Simplified site and created a new template making it easier for non-technical people to maintain site.
• Reformatted table based layout to CSS based grid with new colour scheme.
• Tested cross browser compatibility in presentation solutions and achieved no errors across Chrome 4, Firefox 3-6, Opera9-11, IE6-9 on Mac and PC.
• Implemented a transparent majordomo signup in PHP.

Business Application Developer, Fulton Technology

Apr 2007 - May 2009

• Solving user inquiries over telephone, email and in person by having an in-depth knowledge of TASMIS setup and workflow.
• 18 months of administering TASMIS system and ensuring that servers were operational on Solaris 9 remote server. This included; modification of startup scripts, (in vi) manipulation of geodetic information, reformatting of data projections, removal of duplicate data, zombie process removal and monitoring of system availability.
• Entry of AGD66, WGS84 and GDA94 data onto ESRI framework. Manipulation and generation of reports based on that data. Preformed a boundary translation from ADG66 to GDA94 formatting that was gazetted with the ADF. This included the answering of questions based on conflicting geographic information and determining which information was correct.
• I implemented new design requirements within time and programmatical constraints. Including managing my own time to meet implementation deadlines while testing of new features to meet operation specifications.
• Extracted time sensitive data from historical data-sets to produce dynamic printable reports, using VB/macro scripting to produce reports in Microsoft Word. This report was submitted weekly as The Ministers FOI summary.
• Produced an arc translation method and JavaScript library from SVG (point relative) to PDF (arc relative). This moved 7 data-points in a ESU system into a 6 data-point ENU system.
• Produced a reduction of data sets using convex hulls to simplify server interaction. This took and arbitrary set of unordered points and returned a hullset of ENU ordered points.
• I learnt to use Formula, Lotus Script, Microsoft Office macro scripting, CSS, Java, JavaScript, TASMIS, ESRI and mapping projection schemes.

Waiter, Caffe Della Piazza

Oct 2003 - Apr 2007

• Customer service including requirement renegotiation from impossible to something I could deliver.
• I completed my degree while working 20 hours per week part-time.

General Secretary, University of Canberra Students’ Association

Sept 2003 - Oct 2005

• Meeting convening and recording, budget oversight and planning for a $1.8 million incorporated association.
• Amalgamation of Post Graduates Student’s Association and Undergraduates Student’s Association.

Canteen Manager. ANU Film Group Cafeteria

Feb 2001 - Oct 2003

• Opening and running the one person operation for Watersprite Inc. Tasks included maintenance of stock levels, float management and food preparation.

Software Toolset

• analog
• Apache2
• apt / dpkg
• bash shell
• chgrp, chmod, chown
• Courier
• cron
• cPanel
• ddclient
• Django
• ESRI
• Exim4
• gcc
• git
• Gimp
• grep
• Humingbird
• Intalio
• Joomla
• jQuery
• KVM
• Lotus Notes
• make / .configure
• man / apropos
• MatLab / Octave
• Mercurial (hg)
• Microsoft Access
• Microsoft Office
• Nagios
• Nginx
• OpenCAD
• OpenVHDL
• Photoshop
• PHP-FPM
• Putty
• Raid
• rpm / yum
• sed
• Samba
• SASS
• screen
• SOAP
• SPSS
• Subversion (svn)
• vi

Networking Technology

• Bind / DNS
• curl, wget
• FTP
• IP4 / IP6
• iptables
• netstat
• NTP
• ping / traceroute
• SSH
• Telnet
• TLS / SSL
• Wireshark

Operating Systems

• Debian 2.2 - 7
• DEC VMS
• Gentoo 1.2-4, 2004, 2005
• MS-DOS 6
• MacOS 6 - 8, 10.2, 10.4-5
• Redhat 7 - 9
• SunOS 4, 5
• Solaris 8 - 10
• Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP

Programming, Mark-up & Scripting Languages

• Bash
• Basic
• C
• C++
• CSS
• Dot
• Eiffel
• Excel Macros
• HTML
• iText
• Java
• JavaScript
• Korn Shell
• KPI
• Lex / Yacc
• Lotus-Script
• m68k assembler
• Octave
• OpenGL
• Pascal
• PCRE
• PDP-11 bytecode
• PHP
• Prolog
• Python
• Regular Expressions
• SQL
• SVG
• VHDL
• Visual Basic
• XML